Thread: Is Backpage Working For Anyone

Is backpage worth the effort?

I need a CL alternative and it seems like I get no response with BP even though I post 50 - 100 ads a day.

This product/service worked wonders on CL but is a dud on BP and I wonder whether I should just keep trying or maybe there is a better BP approach I need to take.

If you get no response with 50-100 ads/day then you are doing something very wrong.

I post anywhere from 50-300 ads a day and I make minimum $50, which isn't bad considering I'm using a proprietary bot and just letting it run (so I put in maybe 10-20 minutes 'effort' a day).

Granted, everyone will come on here saying it's not worth the effort compared to CL, or that there's no traffic etc etc. But the fact of the matter is that once you get the hang of BP it's dead easy to post on. So easy that it takes little-to-no effort to get an ad live in every city (300ish ads), and from that point it's all about how well you can monetize the leads.

I don't know about you, but I would rather post 300 ads to different cities all across the US and have them all go live, than spend my entire day struggling to get 10 ads to go live on CL. I suppose in the end it's just down to your preferences, but in answer to your question: Yes, BP works.

what is the bot which you are using to post so many ads on backpage ?

It's a proprietary bot that I made myself, but you can use bpbotpro, bpsender, clad or any of the other alternatives to easily post hundreds of ads per day.

I've been posting about 50 ads per day to test things out and getting virtually no return on Backpage.

MrDetails - Would you give us even a clue about what section you're posting in? I don't blame you if you won't but I thought I'd ask.

I won't give you the section I'm posting in, but I'll give you some tips:Choose high paying offers and come up with a good campaign. Zip and email submits may work with CL, but using them with BP generally won't work very well (all my offers pay $10+/lead).Mainly post in the top 50 cities (that's my personal preference, anything else isn't really worth it.) You can see the top cities here: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/backpage.com (under traffic stats)BP's filters are almost 100% content based (I've only ever had 1 IP banned)Most of the deletions are done in the early morning, so experiment around with what time you post (if deletions are a problem for you, they aren't for me)
That's really all I can think of right now. BP is miles behind CL in terms of anti-spam measures/filters and they're increasing at a snails pace, so it shouldn't be that difficult to post on.

He helped me the other day in a pm...

This guy is a nice guy will help you anyway he can...

Anyway what I wanted to ask is if I want to post 300 per day how many emails do I need and how for apart do I need to post them and do I to uses more than one campaign and do I need more than one master email accounts...

Thanks in advance...

Have A Blessed One...

I can get away with 30-50 emails (just email accounts, not BP accounts) for 300 ads

I set my bot to leave a random interval between posts for anywhere from 45 to 90 seconds, and it just picks an email at random.

As far as campaigns go is completely personal preference. I typically post 150 ads per day per campaign, and I've been using the same campaign (and ad copy) since April. I also use 1 master email account, per campaign.

MrDetails : So you mean you do not register in BP but post using emails only?

I never had any success posting in BP. I mean, I always get ghosted. Though I guess the problem is with how I post.

Still need to familiarize my self on how it works as I always use CL and very dependent on it.
I will try again and see if it will work on me.

I concur. BP has always worked for me. Nothing like CL, but whatever it is so easy to post massive ads.